Dutch households held 3.2 billion euros in cryptocurrency through domestic service providers at the end of this June, according to the figures published for the first time by the Dutch Central Bank, De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB). This, in turn, accounts for roughly 1.4 percent of their total investment in bonds, shares, and investment funds.

Most of the crypto-assets held by households were bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies that are not linked to the value of traditional assets, such as the U.S. dollar or gold. Bitcoin and Ethereum specifically accounted for the largest share of those holdings.

Bitcoin accounted for 1.5 billion euros of household crypto holdings, while Ethereum represented 300 million euros, the DNB said. Stablecoins,…